Corporate Development Intern

**About Plusgrade**:
Plusgrade is the Ancillary Revenue Powerhouse responsible for many of the world’s leading travel brands’ upgrade and ancillary revenue programs. Backed by prominent growth private equity firms including Novacap and CDPQ, over 80 companies like Air Canada, Lufthansa, Hawaiian Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Spirit Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Royal Caribbean, and Amtrak trust Plusgrade’s Platform to turn perishable inventory into revenue through upgrade and seating programs, generating billions of dollars in revenue opportunity and creating more loyal customers. For many of our partners, the revenue generated through our suite of products is key to how they’ve weathered the COVID storm-and came out stronger than before.

Plusgrade is an award winning company, recognized with the prestigious Deloitte Technology Leadership award as the global leader in travel technology, and has been continuously honored as one of North America’s fastest growing technology companies with the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, Fast 500, and most recently won the Enterprise Fast 15 award.

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What we do: *
Ever been upgraded on flight? (Best feeling ever, am I right?) Well, you’ve likely experienced our products.

Plusgrade’s Ancillary Revenue Platform is the only digital-first ancillary merchandising engine that gives travelers the ability to upgrade their experience in multiple ways (bidding, instant purchase, blocked seats to name a few) within the booking to departure window. We help airlines, cruise lines and passenger rail companies generate ancillary revenue through incredible customer experiences.

We’re leading a high-growth category. We outpaced our pre-pandemic revenue targets (and the recovery rate of the travel industry), despite living through the greatest disruption in travel’s history. Today, we’ve generated more than $6 billion in new revenue opportunities. We intend to grow much, much more. And into many more verticals with more products.

Smart, high-performing team members will challenge you to learn and grow every day. We value great work and great ideas — not ego. We’ve built a genuinely diverse team of winners, where we make sure anyone and everyone feels that they belong, but most importantly, we share the same values of customer obsession, togetherness and winning.

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Role*

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Key Responsibilities: *

M&A and Due Diligence Support
- Assist with financial analysis, modeling and valuation of potential acquisition targets
- Co-ordinate and collaborate with Business Integration Team to perform due diligence activities
- Assist with preparation of presentation materials

Business Development Analysis
- Proactively source and/or execute initial analysis of potential strategic alliances and partnerships
- Assist with the development of business cases and plans for new opportunities

Market Research
- Conduct market research and analysis to support corporate strategy (e.g., competitive position, product assessments, market sizing, etc.)
- Scan various sources (e.g., news releases, journals, industry publications, etc.) to identify, track and monitor market, competitive and regulatory trends
- Perform interviews with internal and external parties to gather information and develop insights

Other Responsibilities
- Present key insights and recommendations based on research and data analysis
- Develop familiarity with internal systems and drive projects forward by managing internal stakeholders, developing output materials and presenting key deliverables
- Gather relevant data from various internal and external sources

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- Working towards Bachelor degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Math or related field
- Excellent analytical, modeling and problem solving skills
- Strong organizational skills; demonstrated ability to work under pressure and adhere to tight deadlines
- Ability to prioritize assignments, projects and multi-task within restricted time constraints
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and maturity to interact with Senior Executives
- Independent and self-motivated
- Strong attention to detail
- Proficient in using MS Office (Excel, Access, Powerpoint)

**Job Type**: Temporary